The United Nations Human Rights Chief Friday denounced the Houthi movement for committing war crimes in Yemen. According to UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk, the UN Human Rights Office has verified three incidents of shelling in government-controlled areas that killed a boy and a man and wounded others. The office also verified three incidents of [...]

The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) Friday reported they received 76,000 cybercrime reports between July 2021 and June 2022, an increase of 13 percent since last year. In the third Annual Cyber Threat Report, the organisation broke down Australian cybercrime from the most recent financial year, reporting “an increase in the number and sophistication of [...]

Jony Mainaly is JURIST’s Staff Correspondent in Nepal.  She files this from Kathmandu.  This past Monday, October 31, a writ petition against Nepal’s Election Commission was filed in the Supreme Court of Nepal after the Commission attempted to crackdown (Nepali) on the ‘No, Not Again’ campaign— a social media campaign that calls for boycotting tried [...]

Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank (ECB) Andrea Enria and Vice President of the ECB Luis de Guindos Friday criticized proposed EU banking regulations in a joint publication. The regulators argued that compliance with the Basel III accord is needed for strong banks, claiming “strong rules lead to strong banks, and [...]

The Supreme Court of Canada Friday ruled 5-4 that banning conditional sentences for some offenses is constitutional. The case was brought by 20-year-old Cheyenne Sharma, who was arrested in a Toronto airport with over four pounds of cocaine in a suitcase. Because Sharma is of Indigenous descent, the court requested a Gladue report, which is [...]

A group of former and current Twitter employees Thursday filed a class action lawsuit in the San Francisco Division of the US District Court for the Northern District of California. The lawsuit comes amid widespread layoffs at the company, spearheaded by new CEO Elon Musk. Musk acquired the company after completing a deal Oct. 27 [...]

The Indiana doctor who provided abortion services to a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim in June filed a complaint Thursday against Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita. Dr. Caitlin Bernard initiated a lawsuit against Rokita to stop his investigation of her. According to the complaint, Rokita issued subpoenas to access medical records “of individuals who did not [...]

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Thursday issued a consolidated complaint and a notice of hearing against an Augusta, Maine, Chipotle. The complaint alleges that the facility illegally discriminated against employees for filing a union representation petition with the NLRB. The order requires the Maine facility to re-open and re-hire the store’s former employees. It [...]

The United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Thursday instructed the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia to dismiss Marjorie Taylor Greene’s lawsuit over a challenge to her congressional candidacy. Green maintained her candidacy eligibility and is presently on the Georgia ballot, making the dispute moot. In March, a group [...]

Justin Lindsay is a US National Correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He served 10 years as an Officer in the United States Army. Threats to election safety are rising to a crescendo in the United States. The US “midterms” (called that because they occur between presidential [...]